East Bremerton Fred Meyer shooting suspect posts bail

PORT ORCHARD - The Bremerton man suspected of shooting a 35-year-old man in the parking lot of the East Bremerton Fred Meyer on Nov. 12 was released from Kitsap County Jail this week after he posted $750,000 bail.

Kitsap County prosecutors charged Robert Matthew Ostaszewski, 40, with first-degree assault. He’d been held on $1 million bail but Kitsap County District Court Judge James Reihl reduced it to $750,000 at a hearing last week.

The 40-year-old is accused by Kitsap County Sheriff’s detectives believe Ostaszewski was filming the other man, who then asked Ostaszewski why. A confrontation ensued, and detectives say Ostaszewski shot the 35-year-old, who survived the shooting.

The case is still in pretrial and investigatory stages, Ostaszewski’s attorney, Charles Ramsdell, said Friday.